Published 26 October 2016 Photo: Janne Rinne The teeth of herbivorous mammals provide a detailed account of the climate in which the animals live and of local climate change. Professor Janne Rinne at the Faculty of Science at Lund University, together with his colleagues at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm and the University of Helsinki among others, has studied herbivores in 13

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/teeth-give-away-climate-history - 2025-07-05

Published 14 November 2016 Ben Smith, professor at the department, was interviewed on SVT Nyheter about new research showing that the world’s plants have increased their uptake of carbon dioxide. This increase in carbon uptake has contributed to slowing the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere between 2002 and 2014.Read more"Växter hjälper till i koldioxidkrisen" (Article in Swedish)Ben Smith

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Published 17 November 2016 Rapid climate change will lead to greater shortages of food, fuel, energy and animal feed in vast rural areas of eastern and southern Africa. These are the findings of an interdisciplinary study from Lund University in Sweden. The two weather phenomena El Niño and the Southern Oscillation (jointly abbreviated to ENSO) lead to powerful variations in the climate of sub-Sah

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/enso-threatens-food-supply-southern-africa - 2025-07-05

Published 1 February 2017 Kobbefjord, Greenland. Photo: Katrine Raundrup The Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring programme has produced a special issue of the journal AMBIO: Synthesis of the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring Programme. The special issue presents 13 papers based on Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring Programme (GEM) data. They describe chosen results and analyses of the past 10 and 20 years tha

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Published 14 February 2017 A population projection dataset of Africa was generated by Niklas Boke-Olén and Veiko Lehsten. The publication of this dataset also led to the accreditation of DataGURU as a Nature data repository. A population projection dataset of African population spanning over the rest of this century has been generated by Niklas Boke-Olén and Veiko Lehsten. It is the first of its k

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Av moa [dot] eriksson [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Moa Eriksson) - publicerad 1 oktober 2021 Från och med höstterminen 2022 gäller en ändrad kursplan i fysik och naturorienterande ämnen (NO). Från höstterminen 2022 börjar en ny kursplan att gälla – Lgr22. Skolverket har sammanställt material som hjälper lärare att använda den nya kursplanen, samt en jämförelse av vilka förändringar som gjorts gen

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Published 11 April 2017 A spatio-temporal historical dataset at micro-level for geocoded individuals in five Swedish parishes, 1813–1914, has been created by Finn Hedefalk, Patrick Svensson and Lars Harrie. The publication can be found at: http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201746, and author information is available at: Finn Hedefalk, Patrick Svensson and Lars Harrie.The datasets provide a detai

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Published 4 May 2017 Professor Torben R. Christensen has contributed as lead author to a major international assessment of the status of Arctic climate and environment, "Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic" (SWIPA). The authors were interviewed for a short film now available. The SWIPA report was released on 25th April 2017 at a conference in Washington "Bringing knowledge to action" org

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By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 22 May 2017 EASAC has issued a new report on the multifunctional role of forests. Among other things, the report debunks the idea about the climate neutrality of bioenergy. EASAC - European Academies 'Science Advisory Council - has published a new report dealing with the multifunctional role of forests, focusing o

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/new-report-easac - 2025-07-05

By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 20 June 2017 By Chrisrosenk (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Hakim Abdi, who recently defended his PhD thesis at the department, has published a popular science article on The Conversation website. Hakim Abdi recently finished his PhD studies the depa

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/chad-country-most-vulnerable-climate-change-heres-why - 2025-07-05

Published 6 July 2017 Jörgen Olofsson, Markku Rummukainen and Minchao Wu were recently featured or cited in various media. Researcher interviewed about strategies to achieve climate targetsResearcher Jörgen Olofsson, was interviewed in the daily Dagens ETC about a new book containing 100 strategies to achieve climate targets by 2050. “I’ve only skimmed through the list, but I see that, for example

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/staff-swedish-media - 2025-07-05

By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 28 August 2017 Anders Lindroth Anders Lindroth was interviewed by the magazine Dagens ETC about the climate impact of forests, and about why the amount of carbon in the atmosphere is increasing. Anders Lindroth, Professor Emeritus at the Department, was recently interviewed by Dagens ETC. In one article about abou

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Published 20 September 2017 Photo: Patrik Vestin Swedish forests are important carbon sinks today, despite emissions from deforestration. The choice of management is paramount for the impacts on climate change and some of the concepts used in the climate discussion today needs to be thought over and based on research. This is the essense of an article published by Professor Anders Lindroth and Pro

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/dn-debatt-clear-cutting-forests-generate-large-greenhouse-gas-emissions - 2025-07-05

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 2 June 2023 Microglial immune cells around the area of a human embryonic stem cell transplant to treat Parkinson’s Disease in a rat brain. In April, the young MultiPark working group organized a photo competition entitled "Brain in Picture". The external jury has had a hard time choosing, but now, they have appoint

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/brain-picture-winning-photo - 2025-07-05

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 27 June 2023 Postdoctoral researcher Vivien Horvath investigates X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism (XDP), a rare neurodegenerative disorder. New research is underway at Lund University, led by Dr. Vivien Horvath, a postdoctoral researcher at Lund Stem Cell Center. Supported by a new grant from the Collaborative Center for

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/exploring-role-jumping-genes-x-linked-dystonia-parkinsonism - 2025-07-05

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 5 July 2023 Fredrik Nilsson defended his thesis on 10 May 2023. Fredrik Nilsson defended his Ph.D. thesis on May 10, 2023. For the last four years, he has explored the use of patient-specific cells in cell replacement therapy for Parkinson's disease to identify strategies to safeguard these transplanted cells from dise

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/cell-replacement-therapy-parkinsons-disease-phd-interview-fredrik-nilsson - 2025-07-05

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 15 August 2023 An image of co-cultures with neuronal projections in purple and astrocytes in green. Image credit: Isaac Canals. One of Multipark's associated research groups has published a new study that reveals the role of astrocytes in the development of frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Their findings, now in the jour

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/new-study-reveals-astrocytes-role-frontotemporal-dementia - 2025-07-05

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 11 July 2023 Angela Cenci Nilsson was one of the panellists in a session discussing disease mechanisms, non-dopaminergic cells involved in PD, and the latest development regarding gene and cell therapy approaches. Summer is the right period for recharging our batteries through vacations and travels. It also seems t

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/summer-greetings-multipark-world-parkinson-congress - 2025-07-05

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 24 August 2023 Illustration of a Lewy body.(Image: istock.com/Marcin Klapczynski) Lewy body disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease. A research group from Lund University has now shown that the disease can be detected before symptoms appear, using a spinal fluid test. The s

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/lewy-body-disease-can-be-detected-symptoms - 2025-07-05

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 4 September 2023 Find out how electrotherapy works without surgery in this video by Roger Olsson. Researchers at Lund and Gothenburg Universities have successfully developed temporary, organic electrodes that can be seamlessly integrated into biological systems. The method, now published in Nature Communications, opens

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/electrotherapy-without-surgery - 2025-07-05